last weekend, i did a hike through the roseg valley with anmut and nik. the weather was stunning, it was warm (t-shirt time!), sunny, not many clouds. and, of course, snow. not as much as there’s supposed to be that time of the year, but still enough to be happy :-)
here are some impressions from the hike and the rest at the roseg glacier restaurant:
(and yes, most of these photos would have been perfect for project 52 a month ago…)
here’s my project 52 shot for the fifth week. the topic was
obviously, this topic is aimed at fashion. and, well, as you might know, i don’t care much about fashion. in particular not about what the majority thinks is in & out. so i decided to interpret the topic differently. i quickly got the idea to photograph cars going in and out of a tunnel. there are two tunnel ends near to my place, so i started checking them out. one of them is not good for this, since there’s pretty dense vegetation where i should stand to take the photo. the other one is better, with only little vegetation, but a safety net which is always blocking the view a bit. well. tonight i got around to take some photos. it was not very easy to get cars enter and leave the tunnel at the same time (i guess during rush hour this is easier), so i decided to combine four shots into a nice arrangement. so here’s my in & out photo! please click the photo to get a larger version:
this time, i also have an alternative version. focussed not on the road, but some vegetation. i really love the bokeh of my wide open 50mm lens. please click the photo to get a larger version:
technical details: 1/100s, f/1.4, 50mm, iso 1600. arranged using gimp.
today i took my camera with me to university. here are some impressions.
and yes, ducks walking on ice can slip and fall down:
here’s my project 52 shot for the fourth week. the topic was
i’ve been playing around with some old toys yesterday, but after finding out that this seems to be a common idea for this topic, i decided to think more. when today, we made an excursion to a water reservoir nearby, where we often went when i was little, i watched out there if there’s something i can use. near the entry we often used, there’s a old, dead tree lying. when i was little, it was sooo huge, and we climbed on it a lot. well. nowadays it’s little itself, compared to me. so i decided to photograph this tree leftovers, rotting for like 30 years, in a way i might have seen it when i was little. using my fisheye lens, i started playing around, and got a nice shot of the ground end of the tree, which is caved out by now. please click the photo to get a larger version:
technical details: 1/250s, f/2.8, 16mm fisheye, iso 200.
today, we visited a water reservoir not far from here where we used to make bike tours or just pay visits to when i was really young. here are some impressions.
here’s my project 52 shot for the third week. the topic was
so finally i have snow, which i really could have used last week. well, that’s bad luck. but the good thing is, snow and shade encapsulates my two favorite colors, if there are any: black and white. (just look at this blog, which colors are prominently featured.) so i took one of the snow photos from today, made it black and white with my favorite photo editing program, gimp, and here it is. please click the photo to get a larger version:
technical details: 1/160s, f/5.6, 31mm, iso 100, aps-c; modified using gimp.
while complaining last week that all snow was gone, when i had to produce a photo for project 52, i got snow this week while staying in zürich. here are some snowy impressions from around noon:
later, it started snowing again, continuing until the evening. on my way back from my current quest, i took some more pictures (and already lamented about the absense of my big camera, which is much better suited for low-light photography). the interaction of snowflakes with beams of light is just a perfect thing to photograph!
walking through falling snow is just great!
here’s my project 52 shot for the second week. the topic was
winterwunderland
(ist abgebrannt, und dann schreiend weggerannt).
well. last week, there was a lot of snow left, but this week, it’s all gone. almost all, that is. not that the leftovers are noteworthy; “wretched” describes the situation better. (and if i would have burnt wood or ashes, i would have decorated a bit of it, to add at least some dignity.) please click the photo to get a larger version:
technical details: 1/40s, f/16, 50mm, iso 400.
today i was in our local church here in seppenrade to take a photo of the crib, which will be removed the next days due to planned constructions. it was rather dark inside, which resulted in some nice photos:
here are some more snapshots i made while roaming through the house:
and finally, a little christmas tree:
